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Abstract
Criminal activities are major issues that affect all the cities in any given country. Proper
mechanisms are therefore essential in reduction and control of these activities that negatively
impact on the economy of a state. The law enforcement agencies, therefore, should be the first in
ensuring the provision of justice, and people adhere to the legislation of the land. Besides the
courts and corrections, the law enforcement units play a significant role in criminal justice in the
United States of America. A concrete and active police unit are hence a primary factor that
ensures that law and justice prevail in different jurisdictional perspectives (Greene, 1999).
Governmental Police agencies principal have the role of enforcing the law in their various
jurisdictions through investigation of criminal activities, submitting the results to the courts and
temporarily detaining suspects. The Best Town is no different from the other cities and faces
various criminal activities like homicide, rape, assault larceny among others. The town has a
high number of people with a majority between the ages of 18 years to 65 years accounting for
65% of the total population. Due to the needs to strengthen the people's trust to the governing
body (Mayor-council), there is a need for developing a high reliable police department attributed
to the low performance of the county police department. The paper, therefore, focuses on the
necessity of a local police department based in Best town to provide all the policing services to
the people of the city.
Background
The best town currently gets served by the county police department that handles and
provides police services and enforcing the law in the city. The town has a population of about
75,000 people in total. 10% of the population accounts for the old people of above 65 years, 18%
teenagers of below 18 years and the larger part of 65% accounting for people aged between 19 to
65 years. The largest group is the most active part of the whole population and highly involved in
the primary economic activities in the town. Besides the groups contribution, it also produces
the largest number of criminal offenders in the city. The reason is the fact that a significant
number of the crimes found in this town all fall under the categorizations of this group.
A law enforcement agency is, therefore, a primary issue in the city to ensure the safety of
citizens and sustaining economic growth in the town. Matters concerning the security and the
economic growth of the city as whole are achievable through the establishment of an effective
and efficient law enforcement agency. The town currently has a significant problem especially
about the response time to calls for emergencies. The service is one among other services offered
by the county police department. Ensuring that response time to such calls of distress and crises
is efficient can have a significant change in the town in some different ways. Crimes, as well as
property damages that are rather consistent with long response times, can be avoided if ways of
cutting down on the response times can be established and followed. Any law enforcement
agency, as well as emergency service providers, characterized with such long response times, are
also found to be quite ineffective and inefficient. There is, therefore, a need to handle this laxity
and inefficacy in this town of the police department. To eliminate the inefficiencies on security
issues, a productive, and efficient police department for Best Town should be developed and
established under clear and precise guidelines.
agencies. Therefore to create confidence and reliability of the City governance body to the
people a reliable and dedicated law enforcement agency is a necessity for the town.
Another reason to why Best town police department is of importance is because of the
high crime rates in the city. Associated with the large population of the city are the high criminal
activities in any given locality (Moree and Stephens, 1991). Since the city has been experiencing
a non-reducing illegal activities trend, there is a need for developing a police unit that
concentrates on the security issues of the town alone.
Mission Statement
It is the mission of Best Town Police Department to provide a holistic, efficient, and
committed police services for the town through fair inclusion and involvement of all the people
in the city. Best Town police department shall ensure; preservation of public peace and
tranquility, prevention of crime, detection and arresting of criminal offenders and to perform any
other duties as directed by the council and the chief commissioner.
Organizational structure:
Organizational structure implies to the way that an association or organization arranges
people and occupations so that its work become achievable quickly, and its goals are arrived at
smoothly. In circumstances where the work assembling or groups are significantly small, and eye
to eye correspondence is incessant, the formal structure may be unnecessary. Bigger
organizations ensure that clear decisions about the assignment of various duties uphold.
Consequently, procedures are developed that assist in the appointing of various obligations from
different capacities. It is these decisions that determine the different organizational or
hierarchical structures utilized in an association. Law enforcement agents work under a strict
structure that defines duties, ranks and respective order of response to the specified seniors
(Greene, 1999, p.12). Best Town Police Department, therefore, get bound to these structural
models in its effort to change the situation in the city. The police department will, therefore,
operate on the following structure that stems from the highest rank that is held by the chief police
in the police department to the lowest. At the highest level is the police chief of Best town police
department appointed by the mayor and subject to the approval of Police Commission and the
City Council. He handles planning efficient and operational and administrative functions of the
police department (Hickman and Reaves, 2003). Stemming from the chief of police is the deputy
chief and captain administration. Deputy Chief has the responsibilities of the police
commissioner in his absence. Under his command are the detective captains for this case is one
and captain community and internal affairs.
From the detective captain, the police department is expected to have a detective
lieutenant who reports to the detective chief. A detective sergeant who is one has the
responsibility of overseeing the operations of detectives on robbery and assault, homicide and
rape, burglary, auto theft and larceny. He directly responds to the detective lieutenant. Under the
captain community and internal affairs, the department is expected to have at least three shift
lieutenants patrol whose responsibility is to ensure that Best town streets are safe for those using
them. The shift lieutenants patrol has at least six sergeant patrols that command or operate with
uniformed patrol officers. All these agents straight from the chief police through the deputy chief
are all sworn strength and have the right to arrest any offenders within Best town jurisdiction.
Another branch from the police commissioner is the captain administration. The captain
administration oversees the functions of the city prosecutor, crime analyst, budget coordinator
business office and the communications office. All these officers report to the captain
administration docket. The city prosecutor directly or sometimes indirectly oversees the
functioning of the Secretary court and will ensure prosecution of any criminals in Best city. The
budget coordinator handles ensuring that the police department has a workable budget. He works
with the office manager records and the accounts clerk. Finally, the communication manager
ensures that information dissemination follow a timely and efficient path in the department. He
works together with the IT administrator and dispatchers.
Chief of Police
Captain administration 1 1
City prosecutor
Deputy Chief
Detective
Budget coordinator business
office captain
Captain community and internal affair
Crime analyst
Communication manager
Office manager records
Accounts clerk
Secretary court
Detective lieutenant
Detective sergeant
Emergency response unit
Detective
Detective robbery and
assault homicide and rape
Police Champlain
Best City Police Department is expected to have a limited number of officers both sworn
and civilian. The structure above for the proposed police department for the town has a single
No. of
officers
1
1
1
4
2
4
6
1
4
3
2
Total ($)
109,251
95,000
72,735
72,890
72,890
65,899
65,800
67,000
72,600
69,200
68,093
109,251
95,000
72,735
290,940
145,780
263,596
394,800
67,000
290,400
207,600
136,186
11
15
1
1
3
1
6
18
8
48
63,000
64,300
63,700
62,800
63,993
71,200
60,200
60,200
58,000
945,000
64,300
63,700
188,400
63,993
427,200
1,083,600
481,600
2,784,000
38
2
2
2
3
1
57,200
55,199
55,000
57,800
54,800
0
2,173,600
110,398
110,000
115,600
164,400
0
Amount ($)
Salaries
8,675,479
Police uniform
900,000
Office Equipments
1,234,000
6,8796,090
543,000
Motor vehicle
3,768,089
1,895,060
85,811,718
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